Complexity And Conflict In The Divergent Series By Veronica Roth

The Divergent series by Veronica Roth centralizes on a society with faction, separating every person by their personality. There are 5 factions, Erudite which is based on intelligence, Abnegation which values the need of others above the needs of oneself, Candor which value honesty, Factionless which are the people who don’t fit in anywhere, and there’s Dauntless, who are considered the strongest soldiers of all the factions. These factions represent the city of Chicago, since Chicago is the only state that survived a war and the people there are the only people who have survived the war nobody knows anything outside of Chicago they have been locked in there for years. There is also a faction that doesn’t quit exist, people feel threatened

The core of Tris and Four’s romance is an extension of what the faction system explores. Tris and Four choose each other over and over again. Of course they yell and say thing they don’t mean just like any normal relationship, many relationships break under the weight of loss or hardship, but Tris and Four thrive in stressful and intense circumstances. Their love for each other is deep; their respect for each other, profound. For Tris, the difficulty is with physical intimacy. It manifests in her “fear landscape” her “exposure therapy” encounters with her own deepest fears because her exposure to it was so limited, growing up in Abnegation. Four has trouble trusting people since he was beaten by his father when he was younger and having his mother disappear But he finds in Tris someone who can bear the truth of the abuse he has survived without resorting to pity or recoiling from his pain. She insists that he is a whole, complex person, not the summation of his “damage,” and ultimately, he believes her, too. “That was the goal, the most important goal of mine—to ensure that one character’s strength